When the worship band is really into emo music 

As an emo kid that played bass on his youth groups worship team at a Southern Baptist church in SC in the late 2000s, I feel targeted 😂

The commitment to making it as long as a worship song. Lol

The fact that you turned a 3 min song into a long 5 min version is so accurate with all worship songs.

Shout out to the Christian Emo kids. This is literally how every worship song sounds. Lol

The capo so high up the fret board instead of learning new chords is so accurate😂😂👏🏻

1:06 the "sing it" sold me on the accuracy.

"is this like a song from church or something?"- my 5 year old son you nailed it.

As a youth pastor I can confirm this is better than most modern worship music

Obviously this is my first time hearing this… but it feels like I’ve heard it 10,000 times already 😅

As a worship band director, I'M OFFENDED... at how accurate this is. Hilarious! WELL DONE. Please do more!

I've been wanting to write a paper on how contemporary worship music is largely influenced by Ambient Post Rock, U2 Edge and Pop Country. Absolutely nailed it

Your wife’s voice is incredible! We need more of her

Your wife absolutely NAILED the 2000s emo female guest vocal. You had me checking TBS liner notes.

As a 15 year worship band veteran, the accuracy of this warms my heart. And there are a surprising amount of former emo kids in the industry.

Repeating the chorus 5 times really sold it for me😂

omg... the "sing it" portion slayed me. This man has listened to worship music and knows all the dorky catch lines worship pastors throw at people on stage.

As a drummer of a Southern Baptist church, I can confirm that any time there’s extra time between songs in practice our band almost always breaks out into either a Brand New or Taking Back Sunday song

Your wife has a fantastic voice! I hope she’s up for more singing in future projects!

I need an entire album of just this

Bro, did you bust out the tambourine? 😆 I'm dead.... Well done! As a 90's and 00's emo fan....and current worship leader, this is 100% Hahaha. You and your wife crushed the vocals.

Bro as a worship leader, this is genius. Captured every trope in the genre, down to the “sing it again” callouts 😂 most videos like this make worship music out to be terrible and hokey sounding, this captured the anthemic feel and production level of a lot of the modern bands while also poking fun in the right places. Epic!

The floor Tom rhythm, the ad libs, vamping on the ending of the verse before a soft chorus, the long builds, repeating the bridge a million times, “my heroin, my heroin, my heroin,” the fact that this song is SIX MINUTES LONG. Amazing

The bare feet is what sold me on this one! Also, 5:35 - "You're my heroine... Lord." Too good! 😂😅😂

I can probably play this song as background music at my church and nobody will notice. LOL well done! Please do more!! Would love to hear Bethel's songs sound like MCR.

Worship team guitarist here. This reminds me even more of how "worship" has become a style and not an act. Fantastic job, man. Now do the opposite direction and take modern worship songs and make them pop punk like we did back in the 90's

This style would be a true and worthy successor to your “Pop Goes Country” series.

Your wife Maddie was amazing on these vocals. She has a beautiful voice! I’d love to hear her featured more on your future releases. Great work!

As a worship pastor and HUGE fan of this song, can confirm the accuracy of this cover. Well done 👏🏽

As a former emo and current Christian, this is perfect

Man. As someone who’s played on worship bands for years, and also loves emo music, this hits hard. Incredible job

I went to churches that played music like this when I was a kid. I always thought there was a strange amount of similarly between the church music and the pop punk/emo music I listened to. This video is a great example of that

Never before has a song attacked me yet felt so personal. Boys Like Girls is one of my favorite pop punk bands that I listen to on the regular, and this is one of my favorite songs. In high school I actually went to religious conventions that had a worship band. Two aspects of my life that have been separate have just now met. This was magical, Thank You.

You and your wife's vocals complement each other so well. Y'all killed it!

I'M DYING this is so good - you hit everything! The tom intro, the Hillsong-esque lead line, the bare feet, the hands, Capo 5 so you can still play in G, the snare fill back to the verse, switching to a different vocalist for Verse 2, the octave jump in the vocals, vamp on the pre-chorus, the drop chorus into a big, the worship bounce, the gang vocals, the ad-libs, the drop bridge into a tom build, the "one more time!", the ascending harmonies in the bridge, ending on the 4... I walked away from this kind of music, but wow this brought me back. Well done!

Bro as a worship leader, this is genius. Captured every tripe in the genre, down to “sing it again” callouts 😂 most videos like this make worship music out to be terrible and hokey sounding, this captured the anthemic feel and production level of a lot of modern bands while poking fun at the right places. Epic

the female vocals on this song and some of your others is so so graceful and beautiful

Appropriate Chorus to Bridge ratio. 🔥🤘

Another worship band musician, this hits home lol it's totally the feel. All of the best drummers I've ever known have been church drummers 😋

Transposing the song with a capo and playing in the key of G is the most worship thing ever.

This unironically is GOATed. I love the worship w/ pop punk, it brings a totally different energy that somehow still matches the lyrics (mostly at least). Just incredible

Boys Like Girls hits me so hard, because my role model who died in 2011 loved them. This absolutely broke me, sir. You caught me off-guard. Thank you. 🙏🏼😭💜💚

I've been playing in worship settings since the early 2000s and this is fantastic. I'd love to see covers of "classic" worship songs in pop-punk though I know it wouldn't necessarily get the clicks.

Please make this a series I absolutely love this!

Didn’t think I could love you guys more!! This is freaking awesome.

As an audio tech who mixed for worship bands for years, this is so spot on. All the parts. So many parts. Gotta have someone with a tambourine. And at least 3-4 guitarists. 🤣 The one church I worked at had a 10 person minimum for their teams.

It’s funny because thanks to bands like Underoath and TDWP the vein diagram of worship groups and emo kids in the early-mid 2000s was much closer to a circle than you’d think lol

MORE! PLEASE MORE! 😂 this was so on point but also sounded amazing and i’d love to hear more

Your voices fit so perfectly together! Awesome!!

As a worship leader myself this is so accurate 😂🤣. “Come on sing that one more time” is what sold me 🤣

As a worship leader for a number of years, this is so spot on and 100% legit. Love your stuff. Keep it up!

One of the best parts of your videos is seeing how much fun you seem to have making music and putting these together. All around awesome vibes!

I would love to see this become a whole series on your channel. You absolutely killed it!!!

As a working musician who has been in worship music since 98 (guitar/bass/drums/piano/vocal) and an avid pop/punk guy (Mae/Acceptance/MaydayParade/WeTheKings/BoysLikeGirls/NightGame), this hit WAY close to home in the best possible way :P Thank you for everything you do!

Oh my god. I was NOT expecting BoysLikeGirls

You are very talented man, ive enjoyed every song youve put out. But this brings back memories of leading a worship band at church

This arrangement is SO good. Every time I listen and her vocals come in I get goosebumps.

playing worship music from like 2006-2017 it was so easy to sneak emo stuff into songs that didn't have a "full band" or especially during offering. lots of Brand New, As Cities Burn, and Manchester Orchestra riffs got ripped into songs

As someone who's spent a looooooot of time in worship bands, I feel seen, and I love it.

This is so incredibly spot-on, it's almost spooky. I'd love to hear another one of these, but finding another song this perfect seems like quite the challenge.

You are immensely talented! You said it at the end, this type of music makes you feel a certain way and you managed to take a pop/punk song and make it feel like a legit worship song. And it made me feel good. Well done, dude!

As a worship leader myself, this is incredibly accurate.

Adding this to my church’s rotation this week! So good! 😂🤘

This is awesome! Very well done..nailed it! Thank you for this video, two or my favorite things in one. I love you even more now! Keep up the amazing work! May God bless you and keep you.

Just discovered this page. It fits listening to it on a Saturday morning. So easy and relaxing, and a cup of coffee.

you are SO anointed, brother

The build up into the "bridge"...the drummer lean on the snare... My worship drummer self feels seen. 😂 If only I could get my students to arrange songs with dynamics like this instead of me being like, "guys hear me out, what if... we got quiet... 😂" Great job!

I absolutely love you and your wife's vocals! Keep up the feels and vibes, its sensational.

More music like thisss please it's really soothing for some reason. Keeps my mind occupied.

absolutely brilliant.the drums at 3:30 feeling the spirit is my favorite little easter egg

Your wife’s voice is INCREDIBLE! Former Christian and nostalgic emo here… And wow. This made me remember how much I love the way worship music makes me feel… nice to have the feel without the underlying message 😂

I'm really digging the effort you put into this. Each "band member" has a different ensemble that speaks volumes about them. This is brilliant on so many levels.

Nice idea! Never thought of it since I loved emo songs and being christian in a same way. This is perfect! Thank you for sharing this, I'm so overwhelmed.

This man is a treasure we must protect him. Amazing skill and talent, hit me right in the feels as someone who grew up going to church on Sundays and listening to blink 182, sum41 and all that after school smoking cigarettes and doing kickflips in an alley.

This was basically the worship band I was playing lead in circa 2012 😂 we were all into pop punk/emo and we would purposely do sections in half time just for kicks. And tell me to use more distortion lol

Man, the hand gestures, the drummer’s head bow on the quiet section, the tambourine, the band vibe and more other stuffs are just on point ‼️ Definitely an awesome job mate. Please write an original song with this kind of influence/ genre. I used to play in worship band and it inspire me to play back and to write originals using this method. You’re truly like a hero mate💪🏼

not gonna lie, this is absolutely AMAZING and SLAPS! spot on with the feeling of being there, I had my eyes closed the whole time and my hands up high like they do at worship 😂❤️

ahaha this is so good. I kinda thought you were into worship music as well. Maybe some Hillsong gone Pop-Punk next?

As an Emo kid that played in worship bands, I find this is just beautiful

This so good! Been playing in worship bands for over at least a decade now and you NAILED the aesthetic and sound. Having been a giant fan of pop punk when it was in it's heyday, it's pretty wild to hear this song arranged as a worship song. Amazing work

Sounds so, so good. And yeah I had to check the video to see where the Lady was when she started singing so thanks for mentioning her in your closing credits.

Man this is outstanding! I've always loved the "worship" sound and it lends itself to this song so perfectly. What a great idea and even better execution.

Haven't heard any Boys Like Girls in ages! What a trip down memory lane. Thank you Alex.

Man this is so accurate, from "Sing it!" to the build ups even the spontaneous. Well Done!

I can’t stop listening to this song. Love it so much. It’s perfect.

Now THIS is a genre of music I didn't know I needed! This rocks!

This is perfect! And it's so cool that your wife sang with you. Her voice is beautiful.

You nailed the music influence of nearly all of modern worship music. Well done. Thank you.

Even after all these years of aimlessly looking though RU-vid, I still find absolute gold. What talent you have. Thank you. Also thank you me for finding this

I actually love the worship production vibes in this so much

This feels like a “If Between The Treees wrote Hero/Heroine”. I love it! Another banger Alex! Love your work! :)

The sounds of literally every worship set I played for the past 8-10 years. Great! This was great!

You and Maddie need to sing together more often on this channel, you guys vocals are tight! Love both of these genres of music so much, so it was super fun to see them come together. Thanks for sharing your talent with us, can't wait to see what you do next! Merry Christmas!

Great job man! The wife's vocals were bang on as well.

YOU ARE SO TALENTED! I just felt the holy spirit from listening to "thunder". I don't think that should be happening :D

I’m literally rocking my baby to sleep and jamming out to this so hard. I have goosebumps listening to you cover emo songs as a worship band. I’m in love. Thank you for existing. I’m so glad I found you at almost midnight in a half daze rocking a baby to sleep.

The only thing missing from this, is the video screens in the background with the lyrics and the moving heads with the halo gobos in gold :D Epic work!

I usually don’t comment but you’ve struck a chord lol. I love this connection. I listen to both genres, so I like this take on Hero/Heroine. I’m not taking it at a joke either. I often hear God across genres whether Christian or secular music. And this is a good example of trying to hear similarities across genres. And there are even lyrics in the song that I hadn’t previously seen as faith related (though clearly not intended). So that’s really cool. I remember there being a lot of Christian alt/metal bands at warp tour or popular in the 2000-2010s. Either their music was outright religious, or it was somewhere in the middle with their lyrics having connections to the faith, or they just were very vocal in interviews about their faith. But I think there was some sort of shift though. I’m not sure what happened. There just seems to be fewer Christian bands with that raw emo sound. But there are plenty of them with that post rock sound (like the emotional build and ambience in math rock). Or they even take on an indie sound. Like I just found this one band, Gable Price and Friends. Their song “Heretic” is a good example of that trendy indie sound. Anyways. I digress. I’m curious, especially with your baptist background, would you consider turning a popular Christian song into an emo bop? Like “if elevation worship’s X song was an emo bop.” I’d love to see that. I think it could even be nostalgic.

Thank you do much for the worship song. Our worship team loved you before but now they love even more!

This makes my heart happy. I was a guitar/bass player on my youth group in 90’s 2000’s. This hits me right in the feels.

Perfect. The emotional manipulation through reverb and dissonance is on point!